Written by: "Anti-Racist" Agitator, Spy and  Informant Matt Lauder

Just three things today:

First, a poll that came out today indicates that Canadians have become less tolerant of minority immigrants over the last two years despite an increase in personal and national economic well-being.

The poll, conducted by Ekos Research Associates under a contract by Citizenship and Immigration, found that 27% of respondents believe that too many visible minorities are being let into the country. The poll suggests an increase on intolerance of 5 percent, up from 22% from 1998.

The report suggests that there a trend exists that counters recent theories on intolerance. Such theories maintain that intolerance by a populace has a negative correlation to economic well-being – that is, as the economy increases, levels of intolerance go down. But, in recent years, the Canadian economy has been doing extremely well, thus baffling experts as to the rise in anti-minority sentiment.

The report suggests that the increase in intolerance may be related to the arrival of Chinese migrants on the West -coast last summer.

The poll also indicates that 48% of Canadians believe there are too many refugees coming to Canada. 56% of the respondents stated that they believe the immigration system is too lax and 57% of the people surveyed are dissatisfied with the handling of the immigration system by the federal government

Last year, Canada’s target for refugee entrance was 29,300, but had only succeeded in admitting 21,900 refugees.

Second – an investigative article in the K-W record indicates that several former German WWII veterans were not asked about their involvement in the German armed forces upon their application to become Canadian immigrants during the 1950s.

I was recently discovered that six former German soldiers were not asked about their war-time activities when they applied to come to Canada. The investigation lends credibility to Helmut Oberlander’s story that he was not asked about his service record by immigration officials – a story that was questioned in a recent court case ruling that Oberlander has lied during the immigration process.

Third, I wanted to let everyone know about an almost free offer for WP CDs from the United States. I recently got a few, and for the price, you can’t go wrong – all I paid was shipping and handling which was about $15.00 US.

E-mail stu2072@mail.atu.edu or byemforr@cs.com for more information.

Alternatively, you can write to: PO BOX 534 Uniontown, ARK 72955

LYRICS OF HATE White power winning ears with pop rock from The Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com March 8th 2000 by Brad Knickerbocker (bradknick@aol.com) Special correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

The sound is that of most other pop music - straight rock, heavy metal, folk ballads. But listen carefully, and the words can be disturbing, even shocking. Race war is advocated. Germany's Third Reich is glorified. Blacks and Jews are denigrated, sometimes targeted for violence and destruction. It's called "white-power music," played by bands with names like "Blue Eyed Devils," "Plunder & Pillage," "Bound for Glory," "Skrewdriver," and "Rahowa" (the acronym for "racial holy war"). As it gains in popularity and acceptance, human rights advocates warn that it is infiltrating mainstream youth culture as a recruiting tool for white supremacist and other hate groups.

"This is a movement that has grown from a few bands in the late 1980s to over 100 bands in the United States today, a movement that has grown from a handful of labels and distributors to over 50 in the US right now, and it has been able to move closer and closer to the mainstream," says Devin Burghart of the Center for New Community, a faith-based human rights organization in Chicago.

Much of the activity is here in the Pacific Northwest, says Randy Blazak, a sociologist at Portland State University in Oregon who studies hate groups. But it is spreading throughout the country. A concert this weekend in Michigan features three such bands. Five other white-power bands will play in Texas the following weekend.

Filling the jukebox One particularly significant development, observers say, is the recent acquisition of Resistance Records and its affiliated white-power music magazine by William Pierce, head of the National Alliance. The West Virginia-based organization, perhaps the most powerful and active white supremacist group in the country, expects to sell at least 50,000 CDs this year, which will raise money for its cause as well as draw potential recruits among young listeners.

"Young people are not as interested with the details of ideology as they are with the resistance music," says Dr. Pierce, who taught physics at Oregon State University in the 1960s. (Pierce is better known for writing "The Turner Diaries," a futuristic novel about race war thought to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.) "It's not my music - I'm limited in my musical taste to classical music - but the fact is, whether we approve of it or not, two generations of Americans have been raised primarily on rock," says Pierce in an interview. "So if you want to speak to them in a musical language they are familiar with, it is rock. It is not Mozart, it is not Beethoven, it is the Midtown Boot Boys."

The current issue of Pierce's "Resistance" magazine includes interviews with "Angry Aryans" and other white-power bands... [article continues]